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Custom WordPress,
built to fit your business.

When WordPress and off-the-shelf plugins cannot do what your business needs, we build the part that can.
Book a scoping call
  • Built around your exact need
  • Reviewed and tested before it ships
  • Yours to keep, maintained after launch
Typical project·4 to 8 weeks
Brief, built4 shipped
“Customers book a slot and pay a deposit.”
Booking system
Shipped
“Members-only content and logins.”
Member portal
Shipped
“Prices change by customer role.”
Store pricing
Shipped
“Sync orders to our CRM in real time.”
CRM + stock sync
Shipped
Your briefs, shipped as features
Why build custom

Sound familiar?

If any of these is your stack, you have outgrown off-the-shelf.

We bought a plugin for everything, now they fight each other.

The feature we actually need does not exist as a plugin.

Every small change means hiring whoever built it last.

The site slows down with each plugin we bolt on.

Our WooCommerce needs logic no off-the-shelf plugin covers.

We inherited code nobody can read or safely change.

None of this fixes itself. Every month, the workarounds cost more: staff time lost, customers dropping off, revenue left on the table.

Is this you?

Not every site needs the same fix.

Pick the path that fits. If you landed on the wrong one, here is where the others live.

Our approach

Built with intent.

Custom

Built around your business

Code written from your spec, not retrofitted from a generic plugin. The build follows how your business actually works.

Native

Made for the WordPress way

Plugins, blocks, and integrations that fit the editor your team already knows. No Frankensteining, no fighting the platform.

Lasting

Engineered to evolve

Clean architecture and modern WP APIs, so the code keeps up as your business, your stack, and WordPress itself change.

Why not just plugins

A pile of plugins, or one system built for you.

Plugins are fine for common needs. Stitching twenty together to fake a custom feature is not.

A pile of plugins
A different vendor behind every feature
Plugins that conflict and bloat each other
Updates break things you did not touch
A custom build
One codebase, written to your spec
Reviewed and tested before it ships
An asset that scales, not a liability
How we build

Built like software, not stitched together.

This is what stops a custom build from becoming an orphan script no one wants to touch.

Live · pipeline runs on every commit
Foundation
Branches
feature/booking-deposit
chore/upgrade-php-8.2
fix/quote-tax-calc
Tests
12 passed
BookingForm validates required fields
Deposit calculates correctly
Slot conflict resolves
Webhook syncs to calendar
Pipeline
CodeReviewTestsStagingLive
Shipped
Build #142Booking + deposits
Live
register-event-booking.php
add_action('init', 'register_event_cpt');
function register_event_cpt() {
register_post_type('event', [...]);
}
Reviewed
2 reviewers
Tests
12 passed
Staged
Mon 14:32
Shipped
Tue 09:15

Same loop on every change, long after launch.

Built with
Backend
PHPMySQLWP-CLIComposer
Frontend
ReactGutenbergBlock themes
Integrations
REST APIGraphQLWooCommerce
Quality
PHPUnitGitStaging
Safety net

A custom build is a big call. We take the risk out.

You own the code

Full source in your Git from day one. No vendor lock-in, no licensing games.

Maintained, not orphaned

Every build gets a care path. What we ship, we keep alive with updates and fixes.

Fixed fee, scoped upfront

Quoted from the spec before any code. No open-ended hours, no scope creep without sign-off.

Reviewed and tested

Code-reviewed, tested where it counts, shipped via staging. Never direct to live.

How a project runs

Five stages. Each one signed off.

1

Scope

Map the spec, agree the deliverable, and lock a fixed quote before any code is written.

2

Build

Work happens in feature branches, against your spec, with frequent check-ins on progress.

3

Review

Every change is code-reviewed and tested before it leaves the development environment.

4

Stage

The build goes onto a staging copy of your site, end-to-end checked across browsers and devices.

5

Launch

Shipped to live with monitoring, documentation, and a maintenance path that does not orphan the code.

FAQ

Before you start, here is what to expect.

They overlap. Design is mostly about how the site looks and reads. Development is mostly about what it does: custom features, integrations, bespoke code. A Development project usually includes design work for any new screens or flows we build. A Design project can include custom code where it needs to. We scope what your project actually needs, not what the label says.WordPress Design
WordPress Development

Custom WordPress,
properly engineered.

Tell us the spec. We will come back with a scoped, fixed-fee build plan that ships reviewed, tested, and maintained code.

Custom-scoped, fixed-fee after a short discovery call.